Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-10-27
LETTER OF JUDGE WRIGHT.
lie Appeals to All Republicans to Stand
Together and Close Up the Ranks.
Prosrec;s for Republican Success In
Iowa Never Bettcr--A Good Letter
From u Veteran Leader.

u pui lttttl btiolN tiNs pu Nsh Iilt w
make some speeches, Please excuse mo
IL decline. rs | must-not from want Of
faith or heartiness in support of the tick.
ot--but because my days of political
speech'making are over must devote
my time TO something else and leaye the
political forum to Others younger and
ADLER, but hope not more anxious for
success Of party candidates and princi'
pies.
But what of the outlook. you askf I
answer heartily, confidently and gladly.
all right No more danger II as much,
than for any Of the last ten or fifteen
years. Good ticket good platform, party
substantially united, earnest workers In
the field; YOU and your able assistants at
the helm, with no advantage Of either
principles or candidates in the opposition
as compared with the two past decades,
Iowa can Just ny certainly and unquestion.
ably be counted in the Republican col.
umn In the year of grace, 1887, rs In 1860,
or any year since. No. there Is no dan
ger. and therefore. even IL could do you
any good by my speeches, you do not
need me, And this confidence | have
from what gather from the public press.
what hear from those meet In travel,
and in the city, rs well rs from u firm
conviction after carefully scrutinizing the
principles announced by the two leading
parties, that the people are not prepaie cd
TO change rulers and policies In this good
state.
| know the opposition count much, and
indeed mainly, upon supposed aud hoped
for delectiOns growing out Of tho quos-
ton of license or prohibition. AS to this
hope | may be INDUCED word Al
though n reason personal, IL of no impor-
lance to tho people, or the contest, |
nevertheless ask this In justice 10 myself,
IN well IA because Of the prominence
given to tho question by those seeking the
defeat of our ticket, State aud local.
AS you know, always regarded SO
much Of the platform of QS10 | belioyo)
~ provided for n SO called mon partisan
election" MS cowardly, and this for rens
ons which have often stated aud never
pretended to conceal. You doubtless
know. also, that | never favored the at
tempted prohibitory amendment 10 the
constitution. Aud this not because of
opposition to the principle involved, or
the result aimed at, but tho methods nd.
opted. | have always said, close the
saloon Danish dram drinking; remove the
temptation; rid the State of the last yes
tigc Of these manufacturers Of pauperisn,
wretchedncss, misery and crime. but do
IL by that legislation for which you have
~ flll and unlimited warrant with, as
without constitutional amendment For
whatever you could do by constitutional
inhibition, you could do equally rs well
IL not better by legislation And this
1 hnl,nun An
certainly knows now, and with the re.
suit. think substantially oil are reason
ably content.
have said that was In favor OF pro.
hibition. But | mean real. actual, com.
pletc, thorough, not by the State alone,
not pretended, not attempted and sham.
ming. but that the saloons, big and little.
well and richly equipped, rs well as the
lowest dives, In the drug stores. behind
the counter Of pharmacist, In the whole
sale establishment. all shops. and as to
all places where tho strong arm of the
law may lcgltmately reach-to all alike.
I would favor license, local opticu, so
called regulation, all the time. and every
where, rather than sham prohibition;
rather than broadly hcralded and loudly
proclaimed great moral movement which
finds its chief, IL not only friends and
advocates, rs claimed and charged by
many, among those who make gain alone
by their selfish activity impose burdens
upon the people by their malicious prose-
cutons, and bring rcproach upon the law
by the use Of IL to Ill their own purses
and crafty their own petty spite and
spleen. Whether prohibition thus thor.
ough and complete, or nearly so, rs TO
make the evil Of dram selling and liquor
drinking less than under system OF
regulation, or Of license, Is practicable
has been to me, during all these years OF
struggle. matter Of doubt, ms 1t has
know and still is, to not II few Of tho
best Republicans In tho State. And
hence, while all cannot be accomplished
at once, and while know that the friends
Of the measure must expect to meet with
abuse and criticism the most unjust. and
while have no sympathy with those
who would defy the law; who would
throw the least obstacle In the way OF It's
enforcement, who would attribute TO II a
supposed want Of State or local growth
or prosperity, neither haye any admira'
ton for those "ho!ier than thou people
who affect to doubt the political loyalty
Of, or who would Ostracisc those who are
not ready to believe that prohibition Is
an essential part Of any Republican S
faith. am and can be a Republican, ~
can and are others. and believe as we
please on this subject Prohibition is not
a canon in the party creed. When II Is.
and especially the only one, it will be
time for any and all to determine what
they will do. II may In time be the dis
tinctiye and leading issue in this country,
and that, too possibly If not probably, in
the very near future. But until then lei
us measure political integrity by fidelity
to and belief in known long and well
understood issues and differences, fol
here we can all unite and stand in secur'
ing their triumph. There is here enough
for all to do and thus, rs believe, bring
greater good and safety TO the State and
Nation.
Without referring to others well under
stood and dear to the heart and con
science Of every Republican, there Is ono
fundamental principle upon which every
member Of the party and citizens 'aI
stand. Indeed he cannot well stand up
| on any other, and that is that the law
whatever it is, must be respected ant
obeyed Or, in the language OF our plat
form, I'VE favor the faithful and vigor
Gus enforcement, in all parts OF the State
Of the (prohibitory) law" and such legis
laton as shall prevent other places from
in any manner becoming the substitute oil
! successor of the saloon" To that l say
Amen. And with due submission also
say that the man who does not believe IL
this duty Of obeying aud enforcing thu
law is not a good citizen In this more
than anything else is the safety OF the
Republic And by this mean mo half
hearted creed, no halfway measure, bu
unyarying habitual mplience-obedl'
ence to authority from the cradle up.
For believe still in the language o
another, That the men, the nations, tn
ages which must venerate the law arr
strong men, the commanding nations, tn
happy ages" For, rs was said by on
wears and ages ago, mo mans nature /
able to know what is best for the socia
state of man. or knowing, always able t
do that which is best" The true art o
politics Qaws) concern not the private
but the public good, for public goo,
binds together States. but private onl.
III tracts them. Nor are we always abl
To say that the gain Is not greater 'botl